Reviews

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Everything is HEBEL

Emilee Lord

A carefully constructed choreographic layering that is complex while still allowing for air, time, and this ceaseless quiet.

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Football, roses, and don’t forget the cake

Charly Santagado

A mixed bill bringing together a distinct blend of nostalgia, rigor, and unadulterated fun for all ages.

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Al Ritmo de la Clave

Amy Schofield

Their uniquely Cuban aesthetic corporeally, sonically, and thematically foregrounds Cuban cultural pride.

Artwork: Stacey "BLACKSTAR" Robinson
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Breaking Through to the Unseen

Amy Schofield

Breakdance cyphers activate possibilities of knowledge and ways of being.

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Becoming Animals

Madeline Shuron

Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.

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you are nothing but your life

desire amaiya

questions of connection, reflection, punishment in a purgatory like space.

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The Dust Settles, and It’s Unsettling

Darcy Grabenstein

Finding hope in the aftermath of a massacre.

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Searching For Duende in Philadelphia Ballet’s “Carmen”

Courtney Henry

The nuanced percussion raised the stakes from previous versions of Carmen, yet execution fell short.

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From Birth to Death and Everything in Between

Darcy Grabenstein

Their stories are moving. Literally.

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Talking About Blackness, Ballet, and a Hard Won Empowerment

Shayla-Vie Jenkins

Blackness complicates; it can never be separated from the person or their work.